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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-14/15/18 / B-34 / C-56 C-60 / PV / R5O
    Latest Model:250
    Last Military Serial:FK293 RAF
    Construction Number:18-2347
    Last Civil Registration:N442D
    Compressed ID:Howard 250 sn FK293 RAF cn 18-2347...
    Latest Owner or Location:Vesen Llc, Anchorage, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a C-60A.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-32213.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n FK293 as a Lodestar II.

    Converted to a 250 by Howard.

    19 September 1963

    Certificate of airworthiness for N442D (18, 2347) issued.

    10 August 1992

    To Max X Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N442D.

    From Unknown to After 10 January 2006

    Based at Little Rock National Airport, Little Rock, AR.
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    14 September 2007

    To Dole Air Inc, Little Rock, AR keeping c/r N442D.

    18 September 2007

    Ferry flight.
    Flown to Corinth, MS, and placed in storage.

    11 March 2013

    Civil registration, N442D, cancelled.

    To Roscoe Turner Airport (CRX), Corinth, MS.
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    26 August 2015

    Civil registration, N442D, cancelled.

    1 January 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for N442D (18, 2347) issued.

    27 October 2022

    To Von Pronay Nico, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N442D.

    13 November 2023

    To unknown owner with c/r N442D.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Anchorage, AK.

    15 January 2024

    To Vesen Llc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N442D.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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    Richard Vandervord
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